Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>
>>>>>>>> If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you
>>>>>>>> get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09
>>>>>>>> version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally
>>>>>>>> did not replace stock components with newer versions.
>>>>>>> EPEL doesn't replace rhel5 packages, true, and afaict, openjdk isn't in
>>>>>>> rhel5. Perhaps a centos addon/extra?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Rex
>>>>>> That might have been true at one point in time but it isn't now. On a
>>>>>> stock RHEL5.x you can say 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk' and you get a
>>>>> OK, found it, I'll go known some skulls @ epel.
>>>> I'm not sure it's really a bad thing. For example OpenNMS claims it
>>>> needs b12 or later. But it is curious that apparently no one noticed or
>>>> knows which is better. Has the history of Linux distro treatment of
>>>> java (shipping one that doesn't work and being unfriendly to the one
>>>> that does) completely destroyed any interest?
>>> Many people might not have noticed because they use yum priorities or
>>> apt pinning, as they should.
>> Which one should get priority, and where is the appropriate place to
>> learn that?
>
> by default base+updates should get priority over anything else including
> epel, don't you agree?
Not necessarily. I don't see any inherent reason that I would want
openjdk-b09 over b12 and I'd expect the reverse since b12 fixes known
bugs. But I would want to know that I'm not the first person to try to
run it, which is why I raised the question.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com